Through the unrelenting winter in the north of Japan, a small group of workers must brave unusual working conditions to bring to life a 2,000-year-old tradition known as sake. A cinematic documentary, The Birth of Sake is a visually immersive experience of an almost-secret world in which large sacrifices must be made for the survival of a time-honored brew.
For four years (1977-1981) Esaias Baitel documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang. Having gained ...

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life c...

Documentary showing the efforts to bring cinema to marginalized communities in Mexico.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

Get to know a little bit about Paulo Moreira, sign painter from the metropolitan region of Belo Hori...

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...

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A girl celebrates her 16th birthday with a Umhlonyane.

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey throug...

A genre-bending documentary using dance and physicality to explore themes of youthfulness, fear, reg...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

A journey into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern ...

A short documentary about everyday objects, the people who used them, and the beauty of that use. Fr...